Re: [RFC] shared subtrees

From: Al Viro
Date: Sun Jan 16 2005 - 13:09:10 EST


On Sun, Jan 16, 2005 at 11:02:13AM -0500, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 10:18:51PM +0000, Al Viro wrote:
> > 6. mount --move
> > prohibited if what we are moving is in some p-node, otherwise we move
> > as usual to intended mountpoint and create copies for everything that
> > gets propagation from there (as we would do for rbind).
>
> Why this prohibition?

How do you propagate that? We can weaken that to "in a p-node that
owns something or contains more than one vfsmount", but it's not
worth the trouble, AFAICS.
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